Comments on: The Printerville review: Epson’s Stylus Photo R2880

By: Susan

Susan — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 18:25:18 +0000

I have a new 27″ iMac, an Epson Stylus Photo 1400 and Adobe Design Suite CS5. Before I bought the Mac I had a PC and although the printer worked great it now prints everything too dark. I have spoken to Apple, Adobe and Epson and calibrated the monitor and downloaded the new driver and nothing seems to work. I am a graphic designer and photographer and need to have my work print as close as possible to what I am seeing on the screen. Would purchasing a R2880 be a solution? Do you have any other suggestions?

By: Julie

Julie — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 21:23:47 +0000

We are opening a new office and need to purchase a replacement inkjet photo printer. Our business is that of selling high-end antiques and custom furniture. Our merchandise is expensive, and as we receive a number of long distance inquiries, we send photographs to prospects that we want to be excellent in quality, accurate in color and extremely impressive. We print on average around 50-60 photos per month. They are always full color 8.5 x 11 images from high-resolution originals, and we print on Kirkland brand glossy photo paper. We never print matte finish or in black and white. Is the R2880 the best choice for us, or would the R1900 give us nearly identical results? Or – are there any suggestions among HP or Canon options that might suit or purposes even better?

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By: Cees van Duin

Cees van Duin — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:05:53 +0000

When printing a color photo with my Stylus Photo R2880 on Epson Premium Glossy Photo Paper, bronzing occurs. I select the usual settings: Photoshop manages color and the corresponding ICC profile I downloaded from Epson’s website. In the printer driver I select Epson Premium Glossy and high speed is switched off. What can I do to reduce the bronzing problem? Many thanks in advance for suggestions.

By: Greg

Greg — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 17:47:29 +0000

So I am faced with a conundrum; repair or replace. I am using an Epson 2200 and it meets my needs perfectly. The print quality and gamut is okay for me. However, it stopped printing a couple weeks ago. No color except a bit of faint cyan on the head alignment pattern. Yes, I have tried just about everything to clean the heads and no luck. A local service shop can send it to Epson for refurb for about $275 incl. shipping both ways. And I have about $150 worth of ink for the printer. A new R2880 will cost me $600, plus another couple hundred for ink and I don;t see that is is going to improve my life. What I am trying to find out is the size of the ink cartridges of the 2200 versus the R2880. The latter are $2 each more and have one extra color so the cost of use looks like it will be a lot higher…unless the 2880 carts are bigger. Epson avoids mentioning capacity anywhere on the 2200 cartridge.

By: Samual Bentley

Samual Bentley — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 03:53:55 +0000

Careful with the Epson Website icc profiles. I downloaded set for Epson Matte papers. Immediatly started causing problems with the printer. Also: Bugs showed up in Elements 8. Had to remove Elements 8, remove icc profiles and do serious virus scan on computer. Look out for a small black window that shows up and reads “Who am I”. Danger danger. Epson needs to get control of this crap.

By: josh

josh — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:30:42 +0000

i am a rookie to the printing world, i have been pressing up cd’s for myself and other independant artists and found that every penny i spend is a dollar lost per every hundred copies i press, i am looking for a printer that can do covers for cd’s, cd printing, posters, business cards, etc. but have no idea what printer is economical, and what material is suitable for each project, as this would boost my business and profit, looking at $500

By: Doug Wigton

Doug Wigton — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 18:00:16 +0000

I just purchased the 2880, and my initial impression is in line with your review. I used a 2200 for 5 years, but this printer is just head and shoulders better. The best I have ever seen. However….not only is the small size of the ink cartridges a pain, but the switching of black cartridges is HUGE. Unfortunately, Epson has set up the firmware so that if you pull out a Photo Black cartridge and put in the matte cartridge, then you try to switch back to the Photo Black cartridge, and the Photo Black has a little less than 1/3 capacity left, the printer will not recognize the cartridge! The only fix is to have a completley full cartridge sitting around to “fool” the printer, then put the partially full cartridge back in! What a bummer! I have ordered the Lyson CIS as the Lyson inks are very high quality, and appear from test prints to be so close to the K3 set as to be identical. I’ll come back on when I have the CIS installed and I have printed a large enough quantity of prints to be able to say something about quality and reliability. By the way, the Lyson CIS has a 9 channel version, but you still have to switch the reservoir over and purge the black channel.

By: Bob Wall

Bob Wall — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 22:55:35 +0000

Help me out: If you have gotten a profile from, say Ilford, why would “you have to remember which comparable Epson paper type was used to profile the paper (whether you did it, or you’re using the paper manufacturer’s profiles”?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 22:25:23 +0000

Hi im studying photography at university and really think that the Epson R2880 is my next purchase, but have been looking at the canon Pro9500 markII and wondered if you had played around with this or know which one comes out on top in the Picture quality department.

thanks